Technical Editing, 5th edition

Published by Pearson (September 29, 2010) © 2011

  • Carolyn D. Rude Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  • Angela Eaton
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This market-leading text, which reflects recent changes in technology, workplace practices and the global marketplace, progresses from concepts and basic copyediting to comprehensive editing, management and production issues. Technical Editing approaches editing comprehensively, defining editorial responsibility not as sentence-level revisions for correctness but rather in terms of information design and the overall effectiveness of a document in helping readers understand and complete tasks.  Students learn that the measure of a “good” document is in part outside that document, in the document’s “match” to the users' needs and the author's goals.

  • I. PEOPLE AND PURPOSES.
  • 1. Editing: The Big Picture.
  • 2. Readers, Users, Browsers, Problem Solvers.
  • 3. Collaborating with Writers.
  • II. METHODS AND TOOLS.
  • 4. Marking Paper Copy.
  • 5. Marking Digital Copy.
  • 6. Electronic Editing by David Dayton.
  • III. BASIC COPYEDITING.
  • 7. Basic Copyediting: An Introduction.
  • 8. Copyediting for Consistency.
  • 9. Spelling, Capitalization, and Abbreviations.
  • 10. Grammar and Usage.
  • 11. Punctuation.
  • 12. Quantitative and Technical Material.
  • 13. Proofreading.
  • IV. COMPREHENSIVE EDITING.
  • 14. Comprehensive Editing: Definition and Process..
  • 15. Style: Definition and Sentence Structures..
  • 16. Style: Verbs and Other Words.
  • 17. Organization: The Architecture of Information.
  • 18. Visual Design.
  • 19. Editing Illustrations..
  • 20. Editing for Global Contexts.
  • 21. Legal and Ethical Issues in Editing.
  • 22. Type and Production.
  • 23. Project Management.
  • 24. Client Projects.

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